New Ulm weekly review., 1887-11-09
mot FOR JOE Z
A Sf1crt Story OF a Flirting Cir, and a
Serious Young Man.

Serious Young Man.
There could be no doubt about it
chat Joe was a firt-an arrant little
Dirt. Her gray eyes, her curling lashes,
her pretty little piquant nose, bore
token to this indisputable fact. Her
young lady friends spoke of it with a
contemptuous air, and thanked heav-
en- they were not as some girls are; her
mother thought OF if and sighed, when,
with a brighter color than usual in
her cheeks and q sauucier light in her
eyes, her daughter made "herself agree
able" to q newly found congenial
spirit belonging to the male sex.
Somebody else meditated uponit, and
told himself with a half-unconscious
sigh that Joey Lyttelton was nothing
more or less, than a heatless firt.
She was pretty, OF course, small and
sweet, with q face that was all but
perseot. oval in shape and delicately
5tfnted like q newly-ripened peach.
There was saucy little cleft in her
rounded chin, and the smile on her
Hips brought two stray dimples into
her cheeks. Her hair was OF that in
describable color that was called by
her friends "artistic," and by her
enemies red. She was merry, be-
witching. tantalizing, all in one, with
chat delicious air of chic about her
which modern young ladies inform me
is 50 utterly irresistible.
Besides being the belle OF Dinple-
tArope, the admired of all admirers,
Hiss Lyttelton was an heiress OF no
small Importance in the county OF
steepleshire. She was currently
known to possess round two thou
sand q year in her own right, with
9 prospect Of q thousand more upon
she death OF her mother. The old
naanor.house of Geilston, which she
-and her mother called .'home'' would
one day belong to Joe py hereditary
hight, and already she held despotic
Fuie over it as a tyrannicall little queen
whose word was law. It is therefore
not to be wondered at that Joe had
been beset with suitors from every
corner Of her own world. The squires
for many miles round came to Cells
G0n to pay their addresses to the pref
ty Miss Lyttelton, who received them
kindly enough, but would only laugh
numerically whenever the subject Of
the tender passion was introduced.
s6Ae knew why they had come, and was
I'm the habit Of curling up her pretty
rEed lips, into something not unlike q
sgneer when each new proposal was
laid temptingly before her. She was
never going to be married, never her
mind was quite made up.
And SO it was for nearly three wears
.nntA at length a change set in, for Joe
thaA fallen in love.
Girls of her calibre do not find their
true love one day and lose him Che
next To use her own express
asion she fell in love once and
had done with il, as soon as she met
She man who was capable of winning
her heart. He came, he saw, he con-
saueredv and Joe felt that it was so
with thrill OF delight that was as
sweet as it was novel.
Moreover, as months went on, she
was not slow in finding out that he
loved her too. Not that he ever, by
.as much as q look, led her to suppose
that she was anything more to him
than a casual acquaiEtan pleasant
to talk to in the evenings when her
mother invited him to come and "dine
quietly" at Geilston; but for all that,
Joe knew beloved her-how, it is inn
possible for me to tell.
Let me say a word or two about
this young man before i go any far
cher, 81
10 begin with, he was only curate
"a hard working, ndefat tigable vicar s
help, upon ] 40 pounds a year. He
q had come to Dinplethorpe about 10
months before this story begins. and
had not been many weeks in the place
before he was considered by every
body to be quite an acquisition. He
was tail. manly, broad-shouldered,
in short every ything q woman most
Admires in a specimen OF the noble
sex; and, before she had known him
long, Miss Ly ttelton had fallen in love.
There are, however. two important
Items in connection with Dick Dering,
i which, in common honesty Unjust not
! forget to record against himhe was
proud, and he was poor. One hun
ssdred and forty pounds q year, looked
at in whichever way you will, is not
what one usually considers a princely
fortune. hut until he met Joe Lyttel-
ton, Mr. Dering had never desired to
he any richer. He was proud. because
saithouoh he loved her honestly and
truly, he had made up his mind never
20 let her know il, and to leave Dim.